HAZARDS: Causative Agents

of Risks
VICTOR ANGELO HERMOSO
Subject Team Leader – SHSDisReadi

CHRISTINE BAJIO, ERWIN REYES, JOHN BRYAN ZAMORA

Instructors - SHSDisReadi
 Defining Hazards
• Hazards are
anything within a
given area that can
be a potential source
of damage, harm, or
adverse effects on
someone else’s well
being
 Differentiating Terms
• Oftentimes, hazards are used
interchangeably with harm and risk, but it
should be not so
• Hazard is the source for disasters
• Harm is the outcome for disasters
• Risk is the potentiality, probability, or
likelihood for a disaster to happen
 Categorizing Hazards
• Acute Hazards • Chronic Hazards
are those hazards are those hazards
that have an that hidden,
obvious and cumulative, and
immediate impact long term impact
• Examples: slippery • Examples: physical
floor, toxic fumes, trauma, excessive
grounded wires noise, bullying
 Types of Hazards
• Physical Hazards

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0CYI8QKIBM
 Types of Hazards
• Physical Hazards
 Types of Hazards
• Chemical Hazards

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vOhL_Hw-gg
 Types of Hazards
• Chemical Hazards
 Types of Hazards
• Ergonomic Hazards

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVSLLWXdKV0
 Types of Hazards
• Ergonomic Hazards
 Types of Hazards
• Radiation Hazards

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnjLx0collM
 Types of Hazards
• Radiation Hazards
 Types of Hazards
• Psychological Hazards

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUn5snvX7rg
 Types of Hazards
• Psychological Hazards
 Types of Hazards
• Biological Hazards

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xlpxDqCTmk
 Types of Hazards
• Biological Hazards
 Risk Assessment
• It is a tripartite process in analysing
disasters
– Identification of hazards and risk factors
– Analysis of risks associated with the hazards
– Formation of procedures and protocols for
hazard elimination risk control
How to do a Risk Assessment
• First, you identify all possible hazards
• Second, you determine the risks through its likelihood
and severity through a risk severity and likelihood chart
• Third, identify possible actions that would be deemed
necessary to eliminate identified hazards and
predetermined risks using the hierarchy of risk control
methods
• Fourth, evaluate if the hazard has been eliminated or if
the risk is sufficiently controlled
• Fifth, monitor the measures done to control the risk
• Keep all pertinent documents on hand on the entirety of
that the assessment has been done
 Risk Assessment Tools:
Severity and Likelihood Chart
 Quiz
• On 2:30PM of January 12, 2020, Taal Volcano underwent a magmatophreatic eruption,
raising the alert level from the pre-set level 1 to level 2, then level 3, and finally level 4 as
the intensity of the eruption escalated exponentially over the course of the day, displacing
more than 30,000 individuals within a 14Km Danger Zone Radius.
• Now, going back to your exposure and vulnerability assessment, input all possible hazards
that would make the risks you have indicated possible
• Rate the risk/s that you have indicated previously, and from this rating, rank your risks by
order of priority via the severity and likelihood chart
• Submit a printed output in a long bond paper with the following parameters:
– Title: Arial 16, bold, italicized
– Members list (immediately below the title): Arial 12, bold
– Subheadings: Arial 14, bold, underlined
– Body text: Arial 12
• The rubric to be used is the same as the rubric for exposure and vulnerability assessment
 Risk Assessment Table

Hazards Identified Elements Degree of Extent of Severity Likelihood Risk Level Explanati
Risks Affected Exposure to Vulnerability Rating rating on
by the Risk Disasters to Disasters
5 - Highly 5 - Highly
exposed vulnerable
4– 4–
Moderately Moderately
exposed vulnerable
3 – Exposed 3–
2 – Partially Vulnerable
Exposed 2 – Partially
1 – Least vulnerable
exposed 1–
0 – Not Invulnerable
exposed